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Australian farmers need to rethink how they produce food if they're to feed the growing global population

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Just about everyone involved in agriculture agrees, something's "gotta give".

Farmers just aren't being paid enough to produce food.

Mike McAllum is a futurist. That is, a creative thinker who takes a long, hard and considered look at such seemingly insurmountable problems and comes up with concepts that may just point us in the direction of finding solutions.

So why is there so little appreciation of what farmers do? Here's what Mike McAllum had to say.